Fintushel-Stern knot

English

The Fintushel-Stern knot

Etymology

After Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, seemingly because of their 1980 paper "Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots".

Noun

Fintushel-Stern knot (plural Fintushel-Stern knots)

1. The three-tangle pretzel knot with two right-handed twists in its first tangle, three left-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.

Synonyms

• $(-2,3,7)$ pretzel knot

Further reading

• Fintushel-Stern knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia